RENAMED!! The adventures of Chase and his 2006 Yukon XL Denali!! Follow along on my travels!

[adventurenali92]

So my windshield has had some minimal issues over the last couple years, but enough to annoy me. Had Safelight seal a small chip on the passenger side right when I bought the truck and that’s held up perfectly. But I could always still see the chip. And then last summer at some point I picked up another small chip in the drivers side right about my eye level and it’s been annoying me a lot. It never spread surprisingly. But then about a month ago I was parked, working on a clients car for a couple hours, get in to leave, and I see this crap in the passenger side of the windshield and I was fit to be tied. Lol. I’m like alright this is going to spread sooner than later so I need to just get it replaced. All the glass shops have been apparently out of GMT800 pick up and SUV windshields everywhere...
A glass shop I had done a little bit of work with previously had one in stock, and when I drove down to the base of the mountain to have it done, he sold the windshield to someone else knowing I was my way from big bear. First come, first serve my behind! I told him I’d pay for it in advance and he said he couldn’t do that. So I told him to go pound sand! Lol.

I bit the bullet and scheduled Safelight to come do the job. It was more expensive but it saved me a trip off the mountain.

 

[adventurenali92]

The Safelight tech was great! They were supposed to do it Wednesday morning and the primary tech that comes up to big bear called in sick last minute. So the backup tech rescheduled me this morning, did the job in the driveway, and even got here ahead of schedule which was great. He ended up waving the $34 travel fee since they had to reschedule me to today which was a nice touch. Still expensive but worth it. He was very respectful about being in and out of truck, commented on how much he liked my Escalade gauge cluster(lol) and was done in about an hour. Windshield is awesome and I’m stoked to not have a cracked and pitted glass up front. Let it set after he finished up and then clayed the glass so I could throw a couple coats of CG three year ceramic coating on it. You know me.... gotta keep that fresh glass all sealed up and clean... lol. Now that it’s new I’d also like to find a reputable shop to put the clear ceramic UV film on it to keep the heat down. Not going to tint my windshield but the clear film should help a lot. So nice looking of clean new glass!!

 

[adventurenali92]

So clear that it’s hard to tell there’s glass there hahaha

 

[Fless]

Reminds me of the Windex birds.

 

[adventurenali92]

Reminds me of the Windex birds.

YES!!! Hahahah

 

[adventurenali92]

Fun little surprise when I got home late afternoon from work today. Cindy does a lot of sowing, and she also does a lot of cool print stuff. She made me a custom vinyl decal logo for my Rocky Mountain stainless steel tumbler. I knew she was gonna do one up for me but I didn’t know what it was gonna look like, or when she would have it done. Lol. Loving the tumbler!

 

[adventurenali92]

Finally got around to swapping out my rear bumper cover. Ordered the metal retainer ring that goes behind the apart tire lock cylinder and the project sat since. Lol. Had to JB weld a couple of tabs back into place on the top step pads I pulled with the cover from the junkyard Denali. I then sprayed them with a couple coats of NAPA brand plasti-dip and they came out really good. Reused my lower step pad since it was in better shape but gave it a couple coats of dip and I like the results. Looks like brand new plastic trim. Body shop did an excellent job with paint on the cover. I’m happy with it. And no more scratches and paint chips...

 

[mikeyss]

That looks really good!

 

[adventurenali92]

That looks really good!

Thanks!!

 

[Rocket Man]

Finally got around to swapping out my rear bumper cover. Ordered the metal retainer ring that goes behind the apart tire lock cylinder and the project sat since. Lol. Had to JB weld a couple of tabs back into place on the top step pads I pulled with the cover from the junkyard Denali. I then sprayed them with a couple coats of NAPA brand plasti-dip and they came out really good. Reused my lower step pad since it was in better shape but gave it a couple coats of dip and I like the results. Looks like brand new plastic trim. Body shop did an excellent job with paint on the cover. I’m happy with it. And no more scratches and paint chips...

Nice work. I forget, did you get that bumper cover at the wrecking yard or is it new?

 

[adventurenali92]

Nice work. I forget, did you get that bumper cover at the wrecking yard or is it new?

Pulled it from a 2004 Denali in silver birch metallic just like mine out of a LKQ pick and pull. The paint was in pretty good shape when I pulled it but decided I wanted fresh paint on it.

 

[Rocket Man]

Pulled it from a 2004 Denali in silver birch metallic just like mine out of a LKQ pick and pull. The paint was in pretty good shape when I pulled it but decided I wanted fresh paint on it.

Nice. I remember looking at prices on a new one and they were outrageous. I might try LKQ but up here they don’t let customers in the yard. I’ll have to try the online version.
Edit: that didn’t work. They show nothing used, only new “Silverado style” which are chrome bumpers. I remember why I quit looking. This ain’t Cali, all the yards here are picked immediately because totaled GM SUV’s are in short supply.

 

[adventurenali92]

Nice. I remember looking at prices on a new one and they were outrageous. I might try LKQ but up here they don’t let customers in the yard. I’ll have to try the online version.
Edit: that didn’t work. They show nothing used, only new “Silverado style” which are chrome bumpers. I remember why I quit looking. This ain’t Cali, all the yards here are picked immediately because totaled GM SUV’s are in short supply.

Bummer that the LKQ yards are up there don’t let you in the yards... I got my cover for pretty cheap. Plus LKQ owns a crap ton of yards all over socal. So I have lots of opportunities.

 

[Rocket Man]

Bummer that the LKQ yards are up there don’t let you in the yards... I got my cover for pretty cheap. Plus LKQ owns a crap ton of yards all over socal. So I have lots of opportunities.

Yep, you have millions and millions of people and thus vehicles down there and they are scrapped out more due to the high cost of registration and repair. Up here people are poorer and they drive them until they can’t fix them, and don’t care what they look like lol. And they don’t even bother registering them even though it only costs about $50 a year. I swear people here would buy your scrapped vehicles from those yards, throw a few used parts on them and drive em for another 15 years.

 

[adventurenali92]

Yep, you have millions and millions of people and thus vehicles down there and they are scrapped out more due to the high cost of registration and repair. Up here people are poorer and they drive them until they can’t fix them, and don’t care what they look like lol. And they don’t even bother registering them even though it only costs about $50 a year. I swear people here would buy your scrapped vehicles from those yards, throw a few used parts on them and drive em for another 15 years.

Yeah a lot of the trucks I see in the yards aren’t wrecked at all. They look like they just came off the road. So I always wonder why they are in the yard. But you’re right fixing them here is ridiculously expensive.

 

[adventurenali92]

Hit the road with the Nali yesterday, and drove down to Pinon hills, which is out near wrightwood, about an hour and a half drive, to my close friends place for their Halloween party. They bought the house in 2019 so we’ve gotten together for two Halloween’s and a New Year’s Eve party so far. Really love these two friends, probably the two I’m closest with from my dance family. Low key line dancing party but so worth it. Nali ran perfectly and got me there and back with no issue. I was the mandalorian. Costume came with a helmet which I didn’t put on cuz I was too busy dancing and laughing Lol. But I never dress up so I figured why not this year.
Should have taken some pics this morning, but I’ve gotten my hands on a tire coating product that’s pretty mind blowing! It’s called dura coating. Not sure how long it’s been around but I found it a few weeks ago on Instagram of all places. It’s a heavy duty coating but it’s totally dry to the touch. Been on my tires for about three weeks now, two pretty decent rain storms, and three washes later it still looks good as it’s water proof. But what blows my mind about it is that it doesn’t attract dirt at all. Usually when you drive across dirt with typical water or silicone based tire dressing, it collects a nasty ring of dirt around the tire edges and just looks terrible. Not one bit of dirt rings with this dura coating after heading out a quarter of a mile each way of dirt road, out to my friends house last night, It’s pretty cool.

 

[Colby_e32]

How do you think the dura-coating would work on a dirt/gravel driveway ? Everytime it rains I have to clean my tires again, seems like they are magnets for the dirt/grime.

 

[adventurenali92]

How do you think the dura-coating would work on a dirt/gravel driveway ? Everytime it rains I have to clean my tires again, seems like they are magnets for the dirt/grime.

It would probably work well. My gym sits off a short patch of dirt/gravel drive and I drive over it every day to hit the gym and they don’t pick up any dirt. Every few days I towel my tires down with a little bit of wheel cleaner, and they aren’t dirty. the towel doesn’t come up all greasy and grimy like it would with regular tire shine.

 

[adventurenali92]

So a few things in life have changed over these last few weeks. My mom had a very close friend that her and my aunt have known since they first moved to California in the 1980s. Deb was always around for me growing up. She passed about a month and a half ago. My mom has been helping Deb’s daughter go throw and clean out her stuff and whatnot. Mom said she was taking a couple of plastic outdoor storage boxes to bring up to her house but they were to big to fit in her jeep. On top of that my sister and her husband and the kids are moving to Tennessee in the next two months. They’re packing up their house and downsizing considerably. My mom offered to take some patio furniture off their hands. So I asked the family I’m living with if I could borrow the flatbed trailer to help mom and she said of course. Picked it up last night and drove off the mountain first thing this morning, as my sister had messaged and said that my nieces wanted to get baptized, and that they wanted to do it at their home church here in SoCal before the move happened. It was happening today so I figured I’ll kill two birds with one stone and get the furniture and storage box in one shot. It worked perfectly....
Chase’s towing service in full effect today... lol

 

[adventurenali92]

But it was worth it to see my nieces both get baptized today, as much as I really dislike my sisters church. Lol.